clerk

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clerk1 /klɑːk $ klɜːrk/ S3 noun [countableC]

1 WORKERsomeone who keeps records or accounts in an office 办事员；文员；记账员；职员

a clerk in a commercial firm

一家商行的文员

2 BOSHOP/STORE American EnglishAmE someone whose job is to help people in a shop 〔商店的〕售货员，店员

the clerk in the shoe store

鞋店售货员

3 American EnglishAmEBODLT someone whose job is to help people when they arrive at and leave a hotel 〔旅店的〕接待员

Leave the keys with the desk clerk.

把钥匙交给柜台服务员。

4. PGOan official in charge of the records of a court, town council etc 〔法庭、市政会等负责管理文书的〕文书，书记员

5. RRC old use a priest in the Church of England 〔英国国教会的〕牧师

Examples from the Corpus

clerk• a clerk at a convenience store• Benefices, however, were not the only church assets which the king exploited for his clerks.• Right now I am working as a law clerk downtown.• We went to eat lunch in a restaurant frequented by poorly paid clerks and secretaries and, no doubt, messengers.• There are groups of employees with specific job specialties, such as cashiers, stock clerks, and meat-cutters.• His signature was duly witnessed by two of the clerks in the firm.• Please return your keys to the clerk at the front desk.• The clerk on that day was Miss Claire Robinson.• At the ValuJet counter, two clerks tried to pay attention to their immediate task: putting people on other ValuJet flights.• He cooked for himself and for others, eventually branching out to jobs as a wine clerk and private chef.

desk clerk• At the time, he said, Jackson was working as a desk clerk at the hotel.• Al Perry, Hotel Congress desk clerk.• There was no desk clerk in the notebook.• The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.• It had to be the desk clerk.• On the third night, she went up ahead while he uncorked a bottle and shared it with the desk clerk.• The desk clerk was a worried, grey-haired man with steel-rimmed glasses and a medal.

clerk2 verb [intransitiveI] especially American EnglishAmE informal

WORK/DO WORKto work as a clerk 当职员

Examples from the Corpus

clerk• He was a great role model-he had even clerked for Oliver Wendell Holmes.• He clerked in a cigar shop.

From Longman Business Dictionary

clerkclerk /klɑːkklɜːrk/ noun [countableC]JOB

1someone who keeps records or accounts in an office

a filing clerk

→ articled clerk → bank clerk → correspondence clerk → filing clerk → ledger clerk

2an official in charge of the records of a court, town council etc

Plans of the land were deposited with the clerk of the county council.

3American EnglishAmETRAVEL someone who deals with people arriving in a hotel

Leave the keys with the desk clerk.

→ see also salesclerk

Origin clerk1

(1000-1100) Old French clerc “man in a religious order, scholar, man who keeps records”, from Late Latin clericus, from Late Greek klerikos, from Greek kleros “what you receive in life”; because the Bible says that priests will receive things only from God

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